Russia holds over 400 Ukrainian women in captivity - Coordination Center
Kyiv • UNN
There are 403 Ukrainian women in Russian captivity, some of whom have been missing since 2014, they are held in inhumane conditions, denied access to the Red Cross, and Russia ignores calls for their release.
Currently, there are 403 Ukrainian women in Russian captivity. The fate of some of them has been unknown since 2014. This is reported by UNN with reference to the statement of the Coordination Headquarters on the treatment of prisoners of war.
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It is noted that there are many illegally detained civilians among the women prisoners.
There are also women whose fate has been unknown since 2014, who have gone missing. The Russian side responds to numerous appeals demanding the return of enslaved women with silence and ignores all requests
The agency added that the conditions of detention of Ukrainian women in Russian captivity do not comply with the Third Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
In particular, the women released from captivity report humiliation, inhumane conditions of detention, inadequate nutrition, and the inability to receive qualified medical care and contact their families.
Also, the Russians continue to deny access to the International Committee of the Red Cross to places of detention of prisoners and civilians, which number more than 100 in Russia and the TOT.
The Ukrainian side has repeatedly offered Russia to release women first, but representatives of the aggressor country are engaged in manipulations, including the publication of various lists. But behind all this is an unwillingness to continue exchanges
Addendum
The Center emphasized that women, as well as the seriously wounded and seriously ill, should be released from captivity or repatriated to neutral countries in the first place, according to international humanitarian law.
Recall
The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said that Russia continues to restrict visits by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Ukrainian prisoners of war.
